John Rhys-Davies Quotes
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch -
I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
Kamal Ahmed -
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo -
From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!
Xavier Niel -
It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.
Viggo Mortensen
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I don't know how to play evil.
Carice van Houten -
Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
'It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that.''Ob...obseek...?''Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: ‘Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.’'
Tad Williams -
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
A man standing by a spring of clear, sweet water and cursing it. While the fresh water keeps on bubbling up. He can shovel mud into it, or dung, and the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained. (Hays translation)
Marcus Aurelius
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Who was it who said that a wise man speaks when he has something to say, but a fool speaks because he must?
Alastair Reynolds -
When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of what everybody on Music Row was doing, and that's what has made me successful.
Rickie Lee Skaggs -
I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
Dean Koontz -
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
Jane Rule -
My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
Since the election, President Trump has shown a persistent penchant for conspiracy-minded suggestions about his political opponents and elements of his own government.
Charlie Sykes
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The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
John Bardeen -
Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.
Aristotle -
I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish and then move on to gospel and later to "make believe" ballroom music. I got to hear all kinds of music and my mother would get up to go to work listening to country music. That was her alarm clock. My dad was a jazz lover and listened to the man who wrote "Misty", Errol Garner. He loved piano players, so I got to listen to that as well.
Richie Havens -
I was small growing up, and to make matters worse, I wore glasses, and my mother dressed me in attention-getting outfits. I was a target of bullies.
Joel Grey -
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
William Allen White -
Unkindness is quite a major sin.
John Rhys-Davies